NEW DELHI: GAILBSE Gas Ltd, a unit of state gas utility GAIL India Ltd, today signed an agreement to invest Rs 141 crore in building CNG highway corridors in Uttar Pradesh. "This MoU will lay the foundation for building up natural gas infrastructure for fulfilling the demand of natural gas, setting up CNG stations along the highway corridor and distribution of gas to various industrial clusters and parks in Uttar Pradesh State," the company said in a statement here.

The investment cost for developing this city gas project is Rs 141 crore, it said. The MoU was signed by GAIL Gas chief executive Pankaj Kumar Pal and UPSIDC managing director Manoj Singh in presence of UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi.

GAIL is planning three major CNG corridor projects along the highways - Delhi-Agra covering 200 kms with 6 CNG station at Kosi, Sikandra, Etawah, Fatehpur Sikri, Vrindavan and Govardhan; Lucknow-Kanpur highway covering 77 kms with 2 CNG station at Unnao and Karanpur-Moradabad- Kashipur-Rudrapur Highway covering 145 kms and 4 CNG station at Chandausi and Rampur.